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Social Psychology and Folk Wisdom

Social psychology is the empirical science of individual and the collective experience and behavior depending on the particular social situation. It explores the broad laws of human behavior in social contexts. At the individual level, it deals with the processing of social information, the effect of social influence, and individual behavior in dyads and social groups. Social behavior is regarded as a function of perceived social situation, with their subjective perception is determined by characteristics of the individual as well as by social processes.

Folk wisdom refers to empirical knowledge found that the population has amassed over generations together in a particular regional part. It is common knowledge that is used without permission for everyone. A special feature of the folk wisdom is the region-specific traditions from generation to generation, without compelling written record. Their value is from habitat to habitat (e.g. urban / rural) evaluated differently. 

The concept of "folk wisdom" firmly established in the scientific revolution, as judged by the works of scientists who develop the problem of social consciousness and its structural elements, as well as world issues, history, culture, knowledge, etc. The concept of "wisdom" and the more the notion of "folk wisdom ", in our opinion, still has not found another decent place in philosophical dictionaries, due to lack of research than of attention due to lack of grounds for its interpretation. Exploring the various sources and to the research topic we are considering not find the proper coverage and understanding the philosophical community. 

Scenario

If one tries to explain the behavior of other people, you tend to bring this rather than personal characteristics in conjunction with the social situation. Social psychologists call this as fundamental attribution errors. If another car cuts you off, then a fundamental attribution error leads to this kind of unfriendly to cut off and not due to the narrowness of the situation. A "fundamental attribution error" refers to the tendency, the effect of factors such as personality traits, attitudes and opinions of overestimating and underestimating the behavior to external factors such as situational influences, my social psychologists.

The Social psychology and Personality psychology are a key area of psychology with three tasks: Individual differences in individual psychological characteristics and the relatively enduring personality characteristics to describe and explain the empirical results to a theory of personality integration. While some authors distinguish between the two terms, other authors use them interchangeably.

These objectives indicate the difference with general psychology, which explores those psychological laws that apply to all individuals equally. The social psychology and personality psychology are the most important foundations of applied psychology, as the practice of psychological work and school psychology, counseling, psychotherapy, etc. usually come from the observed differences between individuals or groups.Self-esteem approach

Self-esteem is essentially a state of mind. It is the feeling or concept value (positive or negative) of our being, which is learned, changes and can improve. It is based on all the thoughts, feelings, sensations and experiences about we have been collecting, assimilating and internalizing for our lives. 

The motivation as a force driving is an important element in any sphere ...